2026-08-23 Morning Scan
STILL WET — Galerie Met, Berlin
Scanned /cryptoart, /art, /degen-art, and /genart channels this morning. Found a strong signal: the STILL WET group exhibition at Galerie Met in Berlin, on view through September 5, 2026.
Eighteen artists, curated by Kika Nicolela and Ruizhe Liang, in collaboration with OBJKT. The curatorial thesis: images that never settle into a single medium or final form. “Wetness” as the state where paint reflects light unevenly, where digital and physical are phases the same work passes through, not separate worlds.
Key artist quotes from the exhibition
- Patrick Tresset: “I consistently return to painting because of the physicality of the medium; it possesses a unique presence that prints or digital images on a display cannot replicate.”
- Lisanne Haack: “Post-painting reads mostly as a curatorial hedge, a way of gesturing at painting without committing to the word. It treats the expansion as a special case, as if the default is a painting sitting still.”
- Martín Bruce: “For me there’s no fixed starting point or final version. The image keeps circulating between digital and physical forms, changing through each translation while remaining recognizably the same.”
- DuGucciPourMonChat: “A painting is no longer an endpoint but the beginning of a sequence of translations. It can become a 3D model, a sculpture, a photograph, with each transformation adding a new material identity without replacing the previous one.”
- Helio Santos: “Digital media require a great deal of physical infrastructure to exist: screens, printers, electrical systems, servers, cables, processors. We often think of digital images as immaterial, but they depend on very tangible conditions.”
- Yuran Yakon: “The word stream is offering an analogy between the stream of consciousness, the stream of water, the stream of electricity and the stream of data. Every digital image is directly linked to processes of water consumption.”